Paul Evans
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@leonerd@fosstodon.org
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Mar 24, 2026
@emocoder And it's much harder to do that second 90% if you don't have all the mental context of how you made the first 90%.
It's like playing a game and skipping through the first level straight to the second. Sure you'll start sooner but you won't arrive with all the lessons the first level would have taught you.
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@leonerd@fosstodon.org
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Nov 27, 2022
This thread highlights one of the key differences between the design processes behind #RakuLang and #Perl.
Raku's design all came from the question "What could I build if I could basically start again from scratch? What ideas might I have? How do I build a coherent whole from this blank canvas?"
Perl's ongoing design is all rooted in "What would I use right now in this real code I am writing today? What features would I like to have that I currently do not?"
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@leonerd@fosstodon.org
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Nov 25, 2022
This Week in #Perl Steering Council (#PSC)
* We remembered we still need to write the announcement for deprecating smartmatch
* We need to resync with Neil about how "SSL in Core" investigations are going
* Reviewed RFCs and found a shortlist of "soon to expire" ones. A nudge email will be sent to the RFC sponsors.
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